162 HUMANITY MADE TO ORDER

the rest of the students would be advanced into a
higher grade without the necessity of grasping or
comprehending the subject themselves.

Since the pedagogical forces were unable to ex-
ercise any authority over the students, and the stu-
dents themselves completely lacked discipline and
individual responsibility toward their work and
their teachers, the graduates turned out were of
such inferior quality that it was a travesty to say
that they had any education at all. I was told by
many communists themselves that it was not un-
usual for some students to be "towed" through even
higher educational institutions and to be completely
illiterate after the process had been completed.

Lenin realized that Russia would ultimately have
to become an industrial nation in order to succeed
in her fight for communism. He stressed the im-
portance to the communistic order of the electrifica-
tion of all of Russia. It was his great dream to see
Russia industrialized and electrified. He could not
carry out his plan, for he was occupied during most
of his rule with civil war and internal disturbances,
and before he could go on with the constructive
work of which he had dreamed, he died.

In substance the five-year plan which Stalin in-
augurated simply carried out the original idea of